Thomas M. Myers
Thomas Meyers was held in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Seay and being moved by road from White Bird, Idaho, toward the county jail on June 2, 1904. The Idaho County Free Press reported that rumors of a lynching had circulated the night before and armed men paraded the town, and that a mob seized him from the deputy on the road and hanged him. Several papers said a masked, armed group overtook the officers, took him from their custody and hanged him from a tree, with accounts differing on whether he was also shot. No arrests were made, and county editors called the killing a disgrace and blamed public indifference to enforcing the law.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Accounts say a masked mob took Thomas Myers from officers while he was being moved to the county jail near White Bird, Idaho, and killed him; the Idaho County Press and Stites Journal say he was hanged from a tree and shot, and the Idaho County Free Press says the mob seized him on the road from a deputy sheriff.
Reported by: Spokesman-Review (reporters); Elmore Bulletin (reporters); Idaho County Press (reporters); Stites Journal (reporters); Elk City Mining News (reporters); Idaho County Free Press (reporters).